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Help to Rebels. A.F.L.-C.I.O. pours considerable sums of its own into Africa, last year put up $54,000 toward a new Nairobi headquarters building (Solidarity House) for Mboya's Kenya Federation of Labor, subsidized Harvard scholarships for several African students, recently allocated another $330,000 to help African labor unions. Sparking this African program is the controversial Irving Brown, 49, bustling, bespectacled A.F.L.-C.I.O. international representative, who is based in Paris but spends most of his time dashing between such places as Tunis, Lagos. Salisbury, and Dakar. It was Brown, and other trade unionists like him, who offered...
First headquarters for Kenya-and East Africa, for that matter-is Nairobi, (about $1,000, jet economy class from New York). The New Stanley Hotel is in the center of the city, has 200 rooms all with private bath (11 and up for a double, with breakfast); half a mile away is the older, quieter Norfolk, from whose veranda the early settlers used to pot marauding lions ($10 double). Whether at the Norfolk or the New Stanley, in a tented camp or an inn, guests are awakened each morning at 6:30 by the inescapable old British Empire custom...
Five-day package tours (from $140 per person) and all-out game safaris (from $1,000 for 30 days, including white hunter) can be booked in Nairobi; or travelers can head on their own for the Mount Kenya Safari Club (built by Actor William Holden's syndicate, now linked with American Express), where the living, hunting, dining and golf are expansive and expensive (front suite. $84 per person). And no matter which way they drive, tourists will inevitably meet up with animals. Motoring out of Nairobi in a hired car recently, two U.S. schoolmarms spied a lion sprawled...
...made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta from his desert detention village to a guarded home closer to Nairobi, permitted African politicians to visit him. Last week, the governor retreated again, allowed Kenyatta to meet the press for the first time since his trial eight years ago. In twelve planes they descended on the little village where Kenyatta is confined...
...whites were beginning to admit that it was only a question of time before the man they dreaded would be back in circulation-probably as Kenya's first Prime Minister. Many white moderates were openly urging Kenyatta's immediate release to break the political deadlock. Swallowing hard, Nairobi's white-run Nation declared: "He refuses to commit himself on any major problems facing the country. [But] there comes a point when a leap in the dark has to be taken...